About this species

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DistributionThe species is widespread in much of Britain, but scattered in the north and some southern areas. It is widespread in western and central Europe.

Habitat and ecologyA. elegans constructs a small sheet web over depressions in wetland soil, typically beneath plants (Locket & Millidge 1953). It has been recorded from reed-beds, marshes, upland blanket bogs, lowland Sphagnum bogs, seeps and woodland pool-sides. In Snowdonia specimens have been taken amongst wet sphagnum at 470 m. Adults of both sexes have been found mainly in late summer and autumn, females throughout the year.